LESSON IN EXECUTIVE ORDERS + 'SLUSH FUND' SETTLEMENT PAYMENTS REINSTATED UNDER BIDEN

Presidents sign Executive Orders all the time to state mandatory requirements for the Executive Branch. But most people don't understand how they work and why incoming presidents usually end up overturning most of what their predecessors put in place through these EOs. Mark and Vec provide a civics lesson on the power of executive orders.

Later in the episode, we discuss Biden's call on the Justice Department to consider reinstating an Obama-era practice that allowed prosecutors to reach settlements in which defendants paid compensation to third-party groups instead of directly to victims, Fox News reported on Wednesday. Biden’s request to revive this practice is part of an executive order, “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis,” that the president plans to sign. The practice was initially halted by former Trump attorney general Jeff Sessions in 2017.